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Patent GB-190520391-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Machines and Appliances for use in Printing Addresses and for analogous purposes.
Filed: 1905-10-09
Granted: 1906-10-04
Abstract: 20,391. Addressograph, Ltd., [Clement, J. O.]. Oct. 9. Printing-surfaces. -Relates to a machine and appliances for printing addresses, and for analogous uses. The holders for the address type are removably arranged in columns containing a suitable number of addresses, preferably ten. Each " tray" so formed is numbered, and a suitable number, preferably ten, are piled together in a numbered r e c e p - tacle, each receptacle thus containing one hundred addresses, any one of which can be instantly selected. The trays are preferably used in a machine provided with inking, impression, recording, and dating devices, in which any desired address may be exposed by pressing a correspondingly numbered key, or in which the addresses may be automatically and consecutively printed. The typeholders 11, Fig. 3, are clamped in the tray 13, guided vertically by slots 15 in rails which form runners for the ink roller 27. The rails are recessed at 28 to allow of the inking of the address there situated, against which the envelope &c., placed in the guiding-shield 48, 49, is pressed subsequently by a platen 41 of rubber mounted on a wooden block 42, held in a removable frame 43 clamped to the pivoted lever 39 actuated by compound-lever devices from the foot-lever 29. The tray is arrested in position to expose the desired address by depression of one of a series of keys 2, 3 numbered to correspond to the number against the desired address. This causes one of the pivoted levers 24 to be projected through a corresponding slot in the bed 16, and thus to arrest the tray until, on release of the key, a stop pin 17 slides into one of a series of holes in the tray, and thus holds it in position. If consecutive printing is desired, the pin 17 is held permanently out of engagement by depression of the key marked O, and a pawl 51, actuated by a bell-crank lever 53, and engaging with the series of holes in the back of the tray, feeds the tray upwards step by step. A cam wheel may be provided, which by coacting with the pin 18 on the pawl causes the latter to actuate the tray on alternate reciprocations only, thus printing the same address twice, a record web 60, on ratchet-driven rollers and passing over the platen as shown, being preferably provided for the second imprint.
Patent GB-190525073-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Means for Controlling Traveller Rings of Spinning Frames.
Inventor: BELANGER VICTOR
Filed: 1905-12-02
Granted: 1906-03-22
Abstract: 25,073. Belanger, V., and Stein, J. J. Dec. 2. Spindle apparatus.-The rnotion of floating or rotating rings of ring frames is controlled by devices adapted to be used upon ring rails as at present constructed. The ring A, which is rotated and oscillated by the forces acting on the traveller D, is flanged at both ends so as to be reversible, and is controlled by three or more segments B surrounding the ring. The segments are shaped internally to engage the lower flange and web of the ring and provided externally with an inclined face b<7> bearing on the inner edge of a ring C fixed in the usual hole in the ring rail. The inclined surface b<7> tends to make the segments engage the ring, while the rotation and oscillation of the ring due to the traveller tends to throw them outwards, thus reducing their inward movement about the supporting-rings C and reducing their frictional effect on the ring A. To retain the segments in the ring C, they are provided with T-shaped slots which are engaged with projections c<3> on the ring. An air passage b<9> is made in each segment to clear it of lint and dust and provide a passage for air.
Patent GB-190526485-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Apparatus for Cleaning the Tubes of Boilers and the like.
Inventor: DALMAR ANDRE
Filed: 1905-12-19
Granted: 1906-06-28
Abstract: 26,485. Dalmar, A. Dec. 19. Cleaning pipes.-The tubes of a steam generator are cleansed by forcing in a jet of air and steam which has a gyratory motion. The steam enters through a tube 1 and draws air in through the openings 2. On the exterior of the conical surface are several helical vanes 5, the angle of the tangent at the start being about thirty-five degrees. The mixture of air and steam leaving the apparatus at 4 causes the air drawn in between the vanes to acquire a gyratory motion, and hence to be more effective in cleaning the tube.
Patent GB-190603121-A (GB)
Title: Method of Producing Oxygen for Internal Combustion Engines.
Inventor: WINAND PAUL
Filed: 1906-02-08
Granted: 1906-05-24
Abstract: 3121. Winand, P. Feb. 9, 1905, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Gas and like engines.-Oxygen for use in internalcombustion engines such as those, used to propel vehicles and submarine boats is generated by the action of heat on peroxides, chlorates, perchlorates, chromates, and the like. The oxygen is generated as it is required either by the waste heat of. combustion in the cylinder or by mixing some combustible with the oxygen carrier, and burning it in the oxygen generator. The oxygen carrier is mixed with water and supplied in a pasty or liquid form to the generator, thus avoiding explosion therein.
Patent GB-190604178-A (GB)
Title: A New or Improved Combination Lock or Fastening and Alarm
Inventor: FULLER EDWARD AUGUSTUS
Filed: 1906-02-20
Granted: 1907-01-17
Abstract: 4178. Fuller, E. A., and Ovens, J. E. Feb. 20. Alarms, burglar and like.-Alarms combined with fastening or locking devices, of the type described in Specification No. 4178, A.D. 1906, are applied to shop and like doors, money tills, van, cart, or like tailboards, and to other purposes. A pawl, operated by the bolt follower, actuates the striker of a bell. The follower h carries a pawl g pressed by the spring into engagement with the. shoulder m on the rotatable disk k. This disk is controlled by a spring p and carries a bell hammer o. The pawl g not being attached to the bolt, the alarm is not sounded when the door is closed.
Patent GB-190605594-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Wool Combing Machines.
Inventor: WATSON WILLIAM
Filed: 1906-03-08
Granted: 1907-03-08
Abstract: 5594. Watson, W., and Calvert, R. H. March 8. Bristles, fixing.-The bristles D of combing- machine dabbing-brushes are inserted in rectangular holes B in a plate A and extend into holes, preferably tapered, in the stock, in which they are secured as usual. The stock is secured to a backing C, and its shape provides for the bristles being arranged in curved rows to enter the annular spaces between the circles of comb pins on a pair of circular combs, such arrangement being similar to that described in Specification No. 15,809, A.D. 1897, [Abridgment Class Spinning].
Patent GB-190610979-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Construction of Iron Girders.
Inventor: LIPMAN ROBERT
Filed: 1906-05-10
Granted: 1907-05-09
Abstract: 10,979. Lipman, R. May 10. Girders; columns; reinforced concrete.-Metal girders for use alone or embedded in concrete, are formed by bending sheet metal into the required profile and strengthening the flanges by means of internal tie-rods, as shown in Fig. 2; the nuts for the tie-rods bear against end plates 4. Contiguous ends of the bent metal sheets are separated by plates 7, which prevent the sheets from overlapping and through which the tie-rods pass. The girders may be applied vertically, and any number of tie-rods may be used.
Patent GB-190618516-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Starting Switches for Electric Motors
Inventor: SMITH ARTHUR DENBY
Filed: 1906-08-18
Granted: 1907-07-11
Abstract: 18,516. Smith, A. D. Aug. 18. Switches.-A motor-starting switch has a maincircuit closer and a resistance arm, each separately operated. The former is held on by a latch that is tripped on overload, and the latter is operated by worm gear in which the worm can be put out of gear with its ratchet-wheel. The object is to prevent damage to the motor by excess current. The starting-connexions are made by a lever 3, swivelling freely about a point 2 and passing through a vertically slotted piece 5, shown horizontal in Fig. 3. The lever is first raised in the slot 4, and lifts a sliding bar 7 against a spring 9 to close the main circuit at 8. A collar 10 on the bar 7 is held by the nose of a pivoted latch 12, which can be tripped on overload by the core of a magnet 13. The lever is then moved into the slot 4<A> in the piece 5, and raises the worm 14<A> into gear with the toothed wheel 15 on which the resistance arm 17 is mounted. The arm 17 is held on by a no-voltage magnet 18.
Patent GB-190619747-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Vessels, Barges, Bunkers, and the like, and Apparatus connected therewith for Containing, Conducting, and Transferring Coal, Corn, and other Analogous Substances.
Inventor: WHITE THOMAS
Filed: 1906-09-05
Granted: 1907-08-08
Abstract: 19,747. White, T. Sept. 5. Loading and unloading.- Relates to vessels or barges of the type in which a fore-and- ,aft tunnel is built in the hold of the vessel so that bulk cargoes may be unloaded on to a conveyer or wheeled trucks, and then, delivered to an elevator apparatus. The upper portion of the tunnel a is fitted for the whole of its length with balanced doors b hinged transversely between the angle-irons a<2>. When unloading, the doors are released successively, allowing the cargo to fall on to the conveyer c, by which it is discharged. This arrangement may be fitted to vessels with two or more longitudinal tunnels, and is stated to be specially applicable to vessels of the kind described in Specification No. 413, A.D. 1904. When so applied, the cargo israised to the hopper h by the elevator g and fed on to the conveyer i and delivered to a vessel through the port j. When used for coaling at sea, an ordinary conveying-band takes the coal from the hold to the bow or stern and a towing conveying- band conveys the coal to the warship or liner. The invention is also stated to be applicable to store bunkers.
Patent GB-190620484-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Power Gas Producers.
Filed: 1906-09-15
Granted: 1907-09-14
Abstract: 20,484. Mason's Gas Power Co., Hollis, A., and Wright, T. Sept. 15. Producers.-The outlet pipe of a gas-producer is formed as an annular chamber b arranged externally, and a series of connecting passages or openings d are formed in the walls, preferably near to the zone of combustion. The chamber is extended at one side to support a conduit leading to the washing-plant. A series of ports may be formed in the chamber walls opposite to the openings d to allow dust and other impurities to be removed. The openings may be graduated in size to ensure an even flow of gas. Pipes may be provided for causing the gases which pass into the upper part of the producer to be again passed through the fuel.
Patent GB-190622323-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and connected with Magneto-electric Ignition Apparatus.
Inventor: MUENZ FRIEDRICH
Filed: 1906-10-09
Granted: 1907-06-27
Abstract: 22,323. M³nz, F. Oct. 9. Switches.- In a magneto - electric ignition apparatus, the interrupter is fixed with regard to the magnets, the machine as a whole being revoluble to allow of adjustment of the spark. One end of the winding is connected to an insulated contact - pin m, the other end being connected to the core and thence to a contact-pin v. These contact-pins are adapted to come into contact with an insulated plate so formed as to break contact with the pin v before the pin m; so that the induced current flows through an intensifying-coil to one end of which the insulated plate is connected.
Patent GB-190625132-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Toy Breech-loading Guns and the like.
Inventor: PAINTER ROBERT MARRINER
Filed: 1906-11-08
Granted: 1907-10-10
Abstract: 25,132. Painter, R. M. Nov. 8. Toy guns.-A breech-loading toy gun constructed with a pivoted striker 10, provided with ratchet teeth and controlled by a spring 12 and trigger 13, is used to discharge a pea &c. introduced through an opening 5 normally closed by a spring-controlled shutter 6. The striker 10 is set ready for firing by moving a tubular piece or handle 16 on a rod 15 against the action of a spring 17, causing a rod 18 attached to the piece 16 to move back the striker 10 and the shutter 6. The pea is then introduced into the hole 5, and is held in place by a light spring 8 until it is discharged. The rod 18 is preferably arranged under the barrel 4. According to the Provisional Specification, a magazine may be fitted on the top of the barrel.
Patent GB-190714356-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Perpetual Calendars.
Inventor: KENDAL LEON
Filed: 1907-06-21
Granted: 1908-01-23
Abstract: 14,356. Kendal, L. June 21. Calendars.-A perpetual calendar consists of a disk carrying the week-days at the edge and the years in the next circle as shown, and pivoted to a face card perforated so as to exhibit fourteen days and the year. The face card contains the twelve months in two columns, the divisions of the weekdays being connected up to the aperture by lines, as shown.
Patent GB-190715169-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Combined Telegraph and Telephone Apparatus.
Inventor: DICKSON WILLIAM KENNEDY LAURIE
Filed: 1907-07-01
Granted: 1908-04-16
Abstract: 15,169. Dickson, W. K.-L. July 1. Telegraphs; telephones; telegraph and telephone calls. - In a combined telegraph and telephone apparatus, the telegraph and telephone are connected to line through a condenser, a pulsating current being used for operating the telegraph. The lower part of the case a contains a key b, a sounder c provided with an inker d, a trembler e, and a condenser f ; the condenser is connected across the trembler contacts to prevent sparking. A switch g is also provided for varying the capacity of the condenser, wbich is arranged behind a vertical partition in the case a. In the upper part of the casing is a relay j with means n for regulating the tension on a spring o connected to the armature p, which draws the armature back when the local relay circuit is broken, thereby closing a local circuit. through the sounder c. The screw p is tipped with insulating-material. An electro-magnet is located within the chamber of the diaphragm k, which is connected to line and earthed through the back contact of the key b, so that when a current is sent along the line, the diaphragm and lever s are vibrated, breaking the circuit of the relay j and thereby making the sounder circuit. The lever c<1> of the sounder carries a stylographic pen having a glass reservoir. The pen normally rests lightly on the paper w, moved by clockworkdriven rollers x. When the electro-magnet c is energized, the pen is pressed on the paper with sufficient force to cause the flow of ink. The clock-work motor is provided with an indicator z to show when it requires rewinding, or an electric bell circuit may be closed. The receiver, as shown in Fig. 3, may comprise two telephones 2 carried by arms 3 pivoted at 4 and provided with extensions 5 with a spring 6 between them. The transmitter 7 is placed at a convenient distance from the speaker, and the telephone switch may in some cases be operated by compression of the extension 5. The connexions for one station are shown in Fig. 5, the black portions of the switch m representing conducting material. In a modification, the diaphragm k is employed as a receiver and the switch is provided with an extension connected to a plunger. When the receiver is hanging on the hook, the diaphragm chamber is connected to the hooter through a channel in the plunger. When the receiver is off the hook, communication is established between the diaphragm chamber and the receiver through a flexible tube, the vibrating contact-lever being depressed simultaneously by the action of a cam.
Patent GB-190718044-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Monophase Shunt Electric Machines
Filed: 1907-08-08
Granted: 1908-06-11
Abstract: 18,044. Felten & Guilleaume - Lahmeyerwerke Akt.-Ges Aug. 11, 1906, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. motors, controlling.- Compensated single-phase machines with a shunt characteristic have the no-load speed in the case of a motor and the potential in the case of a generator regulated within wide limits by supplying to the excitation winding upon the rotor or stator and to the working brushes regulable potentials independent of each other and of the load, and of the same phase as the stator excitation potential. As shown in Fig. 1 applied to a motor, the working stator winding d is arranged in the direction of the working brushes a, and the excitation brushes b, which may be kept in series with the winding d, are, if needed, when a given number of revolutions has been attained connected by means of a switch c to one of the secondaries of a regulable transformer s in parallel with the mains. The brushes in this way receive a practically constant potential and the motor has a shunt characteristic. The working brushes a are connected by means of a switch to the other secondary of the regulable shunt transformer s. The primary s may be in two separate parts one for each secondary. The brushes b may be electrically independent of the stator winding. The Specification in the original form as published under the Act of 1901 comprises also arrangements in which the potential supplied to the working brushes is derived from the stator, while the excitation brushes are fed by means of a series transformer the primary winding of which is short-circuited when a given number of revolutions is attained. This subject-matter does not appear in the Complete Specification as accepted.
Patent GB-190721882-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Loose Leaf Ledgers, Binders and the like.
Inventor: WADE OSMOND BLYTH
Filed: 1907-10-03
Granted: 1908-01-23
Abstract: 21,882. Wade, O. B. Oct. 3. Filing papers &c.-A loose-leaf ledger, binder, &c. comprises a metal back a to the base of which is secured a bar b bearing posts c, c<1>. The screwthreaded post c' has the threads cut away over separate quarters of its circumference. Studs d on the posts c operate in slots f in removable sleeves e placed on the posts. Hinged to the plate a is a plate h, on the underside of which is a sliding catch having prongs adapted to lock into grooves k in the post c'. Studs g on the sleeves e engage in holes in the plate h. Slidable on the posts is a bar l in which is mounted a member m internally screwed to correspond with the post c', so that a partial rotation of the member m locks the bar l upon the post. The leaves y are clamped between the bars l, b to a degree depending upon the screw which may be of a quick pitch or double-threaded. The member m is retained in engagement with the post by means of a lock n. When inserting or removing leaves it is not always necessary to remove the sleeves e, since a portion of the leaves may be held upon the sleeves when they are raised upon the posts.
Patent GB-190725358-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Spring Wheels for Motor and other Vehicles and in Spring Wheels and Pullies in Machinery.
Inventor: FURNEAUX HENRY JOHN
Filed: 1907-11-15
Granted: 1908-10-01
Abstract: 25,358. Furneaux, H. J. Nov. 15. Pu lleys.-The hub and rim parts of a pulley are connected by radial plate springs, single o r laminated, secured rigidly to one part and engaging stops on the other part with sliding contact. Lateral stability is obtained by overlapping hub and rim plates, or as shown in Figs. 1 and 2 by forming a hub-ring c to which the springs d are keyed with radial projections c' sliding between the rim plates f<1>, g. The outer ends of the springs pass between pairs of projections integral with the plates, or attached bolts, with or without roller sleeves ; or a ring with transverse slots may be substituted. The arms and springs may be secured to the rim portion instead, or alternately to hub and rim.
Patent GB-190803169-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Reducing Valves.
Inventor: GRESHAM HARRY EDWARD
Filed: 1908-02-12
Granted: 1908-12-10
Abstract: 3169. Gresham, H. E. Feb. 12. Reducing-valves.-Relates to a reducing-valve for delivering fluid at one or other of two predetermined pressures, applicable especially for use in railway-carriage steam-heating systems where it is desirable to allow the steam to blow through the train pipe first at a high pressure and subsequently at a lower pressure for maintaining the temperature in the carriages. The valve a has two piston-heads b, c of different diameters. The outer face of the large piston b is 'permanently'open to the atmosphere and is in communication with the outer face of the small piston c through a passage fitted with a three-way cock.when a valve is delivering at the higher pressure. In order to adjust the valve for the lower pressure, the three-way cock is operated to put the outer face of the piston c into communication with the delivery pressure in the outlet g<1>. The inlet pipe g terminates in a channel h extending round part of the casing and communicating with an annular inner channel j through diametrically opposite ports, the fluid being discharged through perforations k in the valve a. The pressures on the valve act in opposition to a compression coil spring l or its equivalent.
Patent GB-190806423-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Steam Boilers.
Inventor: WOOD WILLIAM HEAWORD
Filed: 1908-03-23
Granted: 1908-12-31
Abstract: 6423. Wood, W. H. March 23. Steam-generator fire-boxes.-In order to provide flexibility for expansion in the fire-boxes and tube plates of locomotive and other tubular boilers, the fire-box tube-plate D is provided with an expansion flange N at right-angles to its surface, which may extend all round the tube-plate, as shown in Fig. 1, or may be omitted from the lower part. The front tube-plate E may be similarly provided with an expansion flange P. The fire-box may be corrugated outwards as shown at J, intermediate flat portions J<1> being left, to which are secured the stays H. The corrugations terminate a short distance above the riveted bottom edge of the plate. The fire-box may be flanged outwards, as shown at K, where it is secured to the tube-plate D.
Patent GB-190808528-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Carburetters for Internal Combustion Engines.
Inventor: CHINN CECIL GEORGE
Filed: 1908-04-16
Granted: 1908-08-27
Abstract: 8528. Chinn, C. G., and Suhr, R. F. H. April 16. No Patent granted (Sealing fee not paid). Gas or explosive-vapour engines, carburetting in. The carburettor is for motor vehicle engines and the air inlet is automatically regulated. Below a carburettor p is a float chamber a, the float b of which operates a valve c through a stirrup iron f. The base of the carburettor is conical and contains a nozzle i<1> and an adjustable spreader j. A pin valve may be substituted for the spreader. A hollow differential piston valve n fits over the nozzle, and is adjusted at starting by means of a stirrup o and rod p. The free lift of the piston is limited by a spring-controlled cross-bar r on a sleeve q. The air enters through a gauze filter k and ports h<4>, the amount of air entering depending on the lift of the valve n. The rotary throttle valve m is oscillated, for example, by a cam on the crank-shaft. The carburettor is heated by hot water or the exhaust gases which circulate through the jacket 7<1>.